Lotion and toilet wash.



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To'all whom it may concern: Belt known that I, Jusrm LUTHER IhLL, a citiz'en of the United States, residing at Williams rt, in the county of Lyeoming and 6 State of en'nsylvania, have invented a new and useful Com osition of Matterto be Used 88 e Lotion an Toilet Wash, of which the following is a specification. I My composition consists of a distilled 10 aqueous extract of the leaves and twigs of the hemlock tree (Tsuga canadensia) and of sweet fern.(Myrica or O'mnpton'ia asplenijolts) in substantially the pro ortion by weight, of four parts of hemloc to .three 5 parts of sweet fern, combined with from ten to twenty er cent. of ethyl alcohol, preferably the a ter amount.

put the hemlock and sweet fern in the 1 pro rtions named, into a vessel or still with so cient water to distill over one gallon to each sixteen ounces of hemlock and twelve ounces of sweet fern. It is not necessary that the leaves shall be immersed in the water, but it is sufficient if they be suspended, b a rforeted bottom, above the water, so t t t a steam generated from the water, will pass through the leaves and thence into and through a condenser. J If preferred the hemlock and fern may be j placed m a as state vessel made of wood or other materia andthe steam from a boiler admitted by a pipe into the vessel under the gleaves so as to pass through the leaves and {thence into the condenser. 86 The steam passing through the leaves be- 1 comes heavil laden with the essential oils and other v0 at le qualities of the hemlock and-sweet fern foliage, and after being condoused, the liquid so distilled amounting to about one gallon to each twenty-eight ounces a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 80, 1907. Serial No. 899,892. (Speclmem) nrs'rm LUTHER mm, or \VILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Patented April 21, 1908.

of leaves, is combined with ten to twenty per cent. of alcohol, forming a com )osition having an agreeable woodland 0 or, and possessing marked healing, cooling and antise atic qualities as a lotion or wash. 4 It is evident that the hemlock and sweet fern may be distilled separately and then mixed, but I prefer to distill them together.

It is possible to make a combination yielding fairly good results, without adhering l closely to the proportions of four parts of hemlock to three iarts of sweet fern, but I regard the proportions named as the best and most desirable for all purposes for which the pro-aeration is useful. l

l or the best results the proportion of alcohol to the distilled extract should be about twenty per cent.

I am aware that it is not new to subject hemlock or sweet fern to a distilling process i in order to extract their essential oils, but I am not aware that their 111 ueous distillates have ever been combined either with or without alcohol, to form a lotion as herein described. I

What I claim and desire to secure by Let-- tors Patent of the United States is- .A toilet lotion consistill" of the distilled aqueous extract of hcmloclc four parts and sweet fern three parts, combined with twenty per cent. of alcohol substantially as described and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this snecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JUSTIN LUTHER lIlLL.

Witnesses:

ll. RUssnLr. HILL, B. Banner.

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